Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
More George Eliot Quotes
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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